C
Captain Rock (nee Ron Green) - New York rapper
Ian Carey - EDM DJ
Cassiano (nee Genival Cassiano) - Brazilian singer-songwriter
Malcolm Cecil - British jazz bassist, synthersizer pioneer
Michael Chapman - British singer/songwriter/guitarist
Charlesthefirst (nee Charles Ingalls) - EDM producer
Louis Clark - Electric Light Orchestra arranger
Bill Conway - drummer with Morphine and Treat Her Right
Chick Corea - jazz pianist, won 25 Grammys
Commander Cody (nee George Fraye) - leader of the band Commader Cody & HIs Lost Planet Airmen
Paul Cotton - Poco singer-songwriter and guitarist
Count M'Butu (nee Harold L. Jones) - Derek Trucks Band percussionist
J.D. Crowe (nee John Dee Crowe) - Kentucky-born bluegrass banjo player, led group the New South
D
Sarah Dash - singer with LaBelle and the Rolling Stones
John Davis - Milli Vanilli vocalist
Tommy DeBarge - member of Ohio R&B group Switch
Dee Pop (nee Dimitri Papadopoulos) - Bush Tetras drummer
Deezer D (nee Dearon Thompson) - rapper/actor
Morris "B.B." Dickerson - War bassist
DJ SqueakPIVOT (nee Javunte Wheeler) - Chicago-based DJ
DMX (nee Earl Simmons) - New York-born rapper
Double K (nee Michael Turner) - People Under the Stairs rapper
John Drake - Amboy Dukes singer
Drakeo the Ruler (nee Darrell Caldwell) - Los Angeles rapper
E
Graeme Edge - Moody Blues co-founder and drummer
Einar (nee Nils Gronberg) - Swedish rapper
Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis - James Brown's and Van Morrison's saxophonist/musical director, co-wrote "Cold Sweat"
Emani 22 (nee Emani Johnson) - California-based R& B singer
Bill Emerson - banjo player, member of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame
Deon Estus - played bass with WHAM! and George Michael
Don Everly - founded the Everly Brothers with his brother Phil, original Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee